Hi, Actually, in mathamatics the point (1,1,1) is just right of the center of the coordinate plain, also known as the origin.
Best Regards, Hayden -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Valiant8086 Sent: Sunday, June 27, 2010 1:56 PM To: 'Gamers Discussion list' Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Important MOTA News Hi. Actually, if the game is written the way I've seen most x y Z coordinate systems to work, down and southeast would make the numbers go up. Top northwest corner is 1 1 1. If the room is say 20 feet or 20 units in length from the north wall to the south wall, and 20 units from the west wall to the east wall, and 20 feet or units from the ceiling to the floor, in other words an exactly square cube with all it's sides the same length, the bottom right corner would be 20 20 20. I'll try to explain how each coordinate works. X coordinate: The first number, or the x coordinate, is north to south. so if you are in the top northwest corner you're at 1 1 1. If you go straight south you'll go 2 1 1, 3 1 1, blahblah. Y coordinate: The second coordinate number is the Y coordinate. X was the first one, y is the second one. Y means west to east. The lower the Y coordinate the further west you are. If you start 3 units south of the top northwest corner where we finished off when we were talking about x, you would change the second number to be larger, 3 1 1, 3 2 1, 3 3 1, 3 4 1, blahblah.: Z coordinate: The final number in a 3d coordinate system is the z coordinate. Remember x is the first number and means north to south. Y is the second number and means west to east. Z is the last number of the 3 and it means top to bottom. If z is 11 that explains you are as close to the top as you can get. If you go down you increase the z coordinate number. Starting with 3 4 1 where we left off with the y coordinate, if we went straight down we would go 3 4 1, 3 4 2, 3 4 3, 3 4 4, 3 4 5 blahblah. Now let's imagine we know we want to go to 6 6 6. Well we will start with x. Our x is 3, it needs to be 6. We know that the further south you go on the x axes the greater the x coordinate. Since 6 is greater than 3 we can figure we have to go south. 3 4 5, 4 4 5, 5 4 5, 6 4 5. Now the Y coordinate isn't 6 either. We need to move that too. Since Y is west to east, we have to go either west or east to get the second coordinate where we need it. Since we know the further west you go the smaller the Y coordinate, and since we know 4 is less than 6, we want to actually go east, 6 4 5, 6 5 5, 6 6 5. Now we're are either too high or two low since the z coordinate doesn't match either. Ours is 5, we need 6. Since the higher you go the lower the z coordinate, we can figure the lower we go the greater the z coordinate. ^ is greater than 5 right? So we need to go down. 6 6 5, 6 6 6. Bingo. That might help out a little bit. Holy smokes. I did a spell check on this when I got finished and there wasn't a single spelling mistake that I didn't make on purpose and the one that outlook didn't like was blahblah. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of dark Sent: Friday, June 25, 2010 2:38 PM To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Important MOTA News Hi Tom. Personally, I have no problem conceptualizing the x y z access business, however I have difficulties in understanding how that access changes relative to my characters' movement. While I can get that going up and northeast will cause all coordinates to increase, i find it extremely difficult to plan what sort of thing will happen were I to go down and northeast, or streight down etc. As I have said though, my own spacial abilities are rather lacking, and I tend to play games like shades much the same way as I navigate in real life, ie, by remembering sets of markers and directions to get where I am going, but with no clear mental map of how any given place relates to another. as you said though, if the system is examined in beta versions and functions like view commands, have I visited here commands, useful targiting and object recognition are in the game I think even I will find it playable. Beware the grue! Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. 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